31st December 2010 NEW YEAR's EVE BABY!

Happy New Year everyone! It was a very misty day in Genting on the 31st December of 2010 ... This was the condition of the mist at around 5pm in the evening. You can barely see 50 meters in front of you. Gary, Nick, Mike and Arch went up at around 1pm to try their luck before the new year in the casino. I came up a little early just to avoid the traffic jam and traffic at 4pm in the evening was horrible as it is since our dear country's prime minister decided to declare it a public holiday because our country won the Suzuki Cup ... =.= ..... public holiday = tough time finding parking in Genting. Fortunately a parking spot appeared in front of me right near the entrance of the parking lot. Talk about lucky eh? =)

Plenty of tourists up in Genting Highlands on New Year's Eve too ..... Judging from their accent, I'm guessing that mostly are from China I think.

This is the most visible Christmas tree in Genting Highlands I think. When the lights are turned on, you can see it even through the thick mist. 

When everyone else reached up (Fish, Cathy, Vic, CentCent, William, Roy and Dexter) we went for dinner at the Happy Valley restaurant.

Cathy decided to use the camera to take my photo. She got tired of me saying that I preferred to take the photos myself haha (which means I can't take a proper photo of myself). After dinner we went for a walk around the theme park.

 The mist was extremely thick as expected and all our hairs got wet. It wasn't even raining =( My hair was the easiest to dry up since I didn't use much hair gel/wax. Look at Roy's hair below*

He wasn't even using any hair gel ... just those *dry look* types and look ... haha its like he went through the rain.

We went over to Coffee Bean to chill and enjoy the cool air and most of them were a little disappointed since Coffee Bean decided to wall up the outdoor seats. Nick was complaining that he was envious of the trees at the other side of the window and kept on saying "I wished we were enjoying the wind outside like those trees over there"

After chilling over at the Coffee Bean we headed over to the outdoor theme park. The countdown celebration was shifted over to the outdoor theme park this time compared to the previous countdowns which were always at the Highlands Hotel. The crowd was .... so .... ughh ... congested. 

To everyone's disappointment, the fireworks were postponed to 20 hours later which means 8pm due to the heavy mist that would have blocked everyone's view anyway. Everyone were disappointed and the traffic to get back to the entrance was horrible. We went back to the Highlands Hotel to meet up and the rest decided to go to the casino to try their luck again and since I wasn't much of a fan of the casino, I decided to accompany Audrey for dinner since she hasn't had a dinner yet ... could probably call this late supper or something since it was already 12:30am in the morning.

This is Audrey btw, and she works as a clown at Genting =) A very friendly girl and a nice person to know ... except for the part where she bit my finger after knowing me for less than 10 minutes .... everything else is ok =) haha

Dharmen, Bryan, Rosa, Dio and his girlfriend came up as well and decided to stay back at Genting to accompany me since I wanted to stay back to see the fireworks and didn't want to drive down with the heavy mist and heavy traffic.

*Dharmen insists that he can be a better clown compared to Audrey*